There are certainly Trump supporters for whom that would be true (and, just to be clear, I am definitely NOT a Trump supporter). That said, the real issue here is the Democrats' moral authority for the #Me Too movement loses all credibility when it isn't applied to Biden. I have no idea if Ms Reade's allegations are true. I do know that there is far more substantiation of her claims than there was for those Christine Ford leveled against Kavanaugh yet the media coverage has been largely absent and the "outraged" Democratic politicians who made hay against Kavanaugh are totally silent.
Of course. But if you’ve been accused by several women of assault...the problem is probably you, not them. Trump has multiple. Biden I’m sure does, not sure. Regardless they should both drop out. But...nothing matters anymore. They’ll both stay and everyone will get past it and justify it.
agree...the press and both party committees try and engineer just how they want things to unfold. Trump is the outlier imo, nobody ever thought he'd win.
If it had just been that picture, I have little doubt that Franken would have survived politically and it would probably have been forgotten. But after the discussion over that picture, a couple of other woman came forward and said that he had touched them inappropriately and made them uncomfortable. None of them accused him of sexual misconduct, as I recall, just inappropriate touching. All of it combined made Franken believe that he should step down.
Hell, I remember some of the networks promoting that Avanvatti guy as possible presidential material.
Yeah but it seems to me his crimes and entire life started to fall apart after that time. Nobody knew he would end up being in prison after trying to extort Nike. What an idiot.
I still thought he shouldn’t of stepped down. Even though he was on the opposing side, I thought he was an excellent senator.
I, too, thought he was an excellent senator. One who seemed to truly care about his constituents. But it does seem true that he also had problematic views and interactions with women, going back to his SNL days (though not universally so--some of his female co-stars loved him). It simply wasn't a flaw that he could survive in this party, in this era (and I don't think that's wrong on the part of Democrats either--the fact that men treating women badly has long been a perfectly survivable "flaw" for almost all of human history argues strongly in favor of taking a strong stand against that).
Among other things, Trump was humping hookers while his wife was pregnant and paid hush money to keep them quiet and he was also caught on tape talking about grabbing women by the pussy...and it was overlooked by the voters. But Biden is the bad guy?
Heres the thing. When it comes to morals and integrity there shouldn’t levels of bad. Like, I robbed this bank but only got $100. I’m tired of politicians, who call themselves leaders, being able to get away with “only assaulting one person and it was years ago” and “only accepting a small amount from some lobbyist”. You can’t be kind of pregnant. You are or are not. People can’t complain about Trump and his kids and then have Hunter Biden and Joe being creepy. Pick a lane.
All of that about Trump is true, but as far as I know there aren't any complaints of sexual assault pending against him.
If Biden is guilty he should step down, as should Trump. Biden was no where near my first choice. I would be glad if some else got the nomination. Bernie is 2nd, and he should get it, but he won't. The delegates that voted for Biden will go to another centrist like Amy Klobuchar or maybe...maybe Warren.
